Patient Care

Amitriptyline has anticholinergic, antihistamine, anti-alpha, and anti-GABA qualities, along with sodium channel-blocking properties that cause a wide complex tachycardia.
One Pill Can Kill: The Case of the Tachycardic Kid
Blair Bigham, MD, MSc, EMT-P, August 08, 2020
Medications and toxidrome can help you narrow the problem down.
The metropolitan medical directors, AKA "Eagles" meet weekly to discuss responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Updates from EMS Medical Directors: Watch Now
July 14, 2020
Topics discussed: Texas surge, Florida 15% positive rate, higher trauma numbers in Atlanta, COVID causing hypokalemia means avoid amiodarone, Milwaukee DNC event
Research notes timely prehospital blood and plasma transfusions result in better patient outcomes. (Photo: Air Methods)
Black Hills Life Flight Adds Blood, Plasma to Air Medical Transports
July 14, 2020
Research notes timely prehospital blood and plasma transfusions result in better patient outcomes.
EMT Amber Horton, whose son has severe autism, is training fellow providers how to help pediatric patients who are on the spectrum. (Photo: Tribune News Service)
Mich. EMT Equips Ambulances With Sensory Kits for Kids With Autism
July 14, 2020
EMT Amber Horton, whose son has severe autism, is training fellow providers how to help pediatric patients who are on the spectrum.
Ford Albritton, MD, is researching coronavirus symptoms including loss of smell and taste.
Five Questions With: Ford Albritton, MD, on COVID's Loss of Smell and Taste
James Careless, July 13, 2020
Are they useful symptoms for EMS providers evaluating possible coronavirus patients?
Pilots have long been aware of the risks of silent hypoxia.
Your Captain Speaking: Silent Hypoxia and COVID-19
Dick Blanchet and Samantha Greene, July 12, 2020
Look for fast respirations, cyanosis, and a pulse-ox reading that’s surprisingly low.
COVID-related care interruptions may exacerbate patients' chronic illnesses.
How COVID-19 May Lead to a Wave of Chronic Illness Exacerbations
Joe Caruso BS, EMT, and Christopher Gaeta, July 11, 2020
Continuity of care has been interrupted, complicating complex conditions.
The new technology permits a clinician to see two waveforms and the patient’s vitals, including the patient’s temperature, heart rate, SpO2, and end-tidal CO2 on the monitor/defibrillator. (Photo: ZOLL)
ZOLL Launches Remote View Capability on X Series Defibrillator
July 10, 2020
The new technology permits a clinician to see two waveforms and the patient’s vitals, including the patient’s temperature, heart rate, SpO2, and end-tidal CO2 on the monitor/defibrillator.
A Cleveland Clinic study shows stress cardiomyopathy incidents have doubled in comparison to those before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stress Cardiomyopathy Rates Double During Pandemic
July 09, 2020
A Cleveland Clinic study shows stress cardiomyopathy incidents have doubled in comparison to those before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The medical device helps EMS, firefighters and military personnel track five patient parameters to optimize care. (Photo: Nonin Medical)
FDA Clears Nonin Medical CO-Pilot Multi-Parameter System
July 08, 2020
The medical device helps EMS, firefighters and military personnel track five patient parameters to optimize care.
Body cam footage shows Kyle Foster Clark and Brad Alan Cox mocking a patient who had been beaten and later died.
Qualified Immunity May Protect Tex. Paramedics in 2016 Case
July 07, 2020
Body cam footage shows Kyle Foster Clark and Brad Alan Cox mocking a patient who had been beaten and later died.
A profile of cruise ship paramedic jobs
Setting Sail on the Career Opportunity of a Lifetime
Daniel Casciato, July 05, 2020
This year’s events aside, cruise ship paramedic jobs have lots to offer.
How to contain potential aerosol plumes when managing COVID patients' airways
Grand Rounds: Emergency Airway Management in COVID-19—Concepts from Simulation to Consider
James DuCanto, MD, July 04, 2020
Videos show how to contain potential aerosol plumes when managing COVID patients' airways.
Timea Higgins suvives cardiac arrest, long resuscitation
83 Minutes Down: How Teamwork and Technology Beat the Odds to Save a Life
James Careless, July 03, 2020
It took a major resuscitative effort to get a Georgia woman past her cardiac arrest and heart attack. 
Double Sequential External Defibrillation resuscitation cardiac arrest ventricular fibrillation
Double Sequential External Defibrillation: What the Science Says
July 01, 2020
Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) is a potential new intervention for patients in ventricular fibrillation who don't respond to traditional resuscitation, but it has yet to be…
EMS Medical Directors from around the world share their best practices and updates about the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Eagles Update COVID-19 Webinar July 7, 2020
July 01, 2020
Texas, Florida, Arizona numbers "through the roof," hospital diversions: The latest on COVID-19.
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